BenB
|
| posted on 4/11/14 at 01:32 PM |
|
|
Blooming bricked Iomega NAS
Last night my previously reliable Iomega 1tb Cloud Edition NAS e-mailed me to say a firmware update was available to sort out the Shellshock
vulnerability. I duly downloaded the update from the Lenovo website (who now own Iomega), ran the update function via the NAS management page in
accordance with their instructions and the bloody thing bricked itself mid update. Luckily I had a USB HD plugged in with an auto back-up off the NAS
so I shouldn't have lost any information but it's a tad annoying. I suppose it's one way of avoiding it being vulnerable to a Bash
exploit (remove it totally from existance!).
I'll muck around with the old one to see if I can get it working but by all accounts it's a bit of a PITA to re-flash it, it's not
official (Lenovo don't supply stock images or the software to flash them) and it's a destructive process so I'd then have to copy
all the information back over from the USB HD even if it worked etc etc. In the meantime I've ordered a somewhat nicer RAID compatible LAN with
a couple of speedy 2Tb HDs... Avoid having seperate usb HDs etc etc.
Bloody annoying though. Wasn't cheap when I bought it (it was a good few years back when it was one of the earlier NASs to come out) and to get
bricked by a firmware update due to no fault of my own is a wee bit peeving considering I've had to shell out £160+ for the new gear.
And breath....................
|
|
|
|
|
ashg
|
| posted on 4/11/14 at 02:06 PM |
|
|
i have got an asustor one made by asus. works very well and the software updates are reliable so far. it has a nice feature too. it has a hdmi plug
on it and acts as an xbmc media center for my tv too. its also my web server and i can access my files remotely either by https or ftp.
Anything With Tits or Wheels Will cost you MONEY!!
Haynes Roadster (Finished)
Exocet (Finished & Sold)
New Project (Started)
|
|
|
ken555
|
| posted on 4/11/14 at 06:13 PM |
|
|
Flashed the same firmware this morning, no problems.
Even though I did it remotely from work via TeamViewer to a home pc.
Looks like I got off lightly.
|
|
|
